After the banquet was dispersed, the potter sent Gao Gan, Gao Rou, Zhong Changtong and others down to rest, and he personally sent Yuan Tan back to the post house.

The two didn't say a word on the way.

Yuan Tan is not a pure fool, although he is very grateful for the generous treatment of the potter, but sometimes he is more or less figuring out the intention of the potter.

With the identity and status of the pottery merchant, Yuan Tan will not think that the pottery chamber of commerce has a relationship with him for no reason, although he is the son of the famous Yuan family, after all, the pottery merchant is also the overlord of the southeast, and it is unrealistic to simply communicate without wanting to figure something from himself.

After the carriage arrived at the post house, the potter said to Yuan Tan with a smile: "Brother, it's time to get to the place, rest early, I will send you and my brother back to Hebei together on a certain day. ”

Yuan Tan got out of the carriage, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Brother Tao, I want to ask you a few words, can you?" ”

The potter jumped out of the carriage and said with a smile: "If there is anything that the elder brother wants to ask, the younger brother will not obey him." ”

Yuan Tan looked at the potter's kind smile, and for some reason, he was always a little embarrassed in his heart.

But if you have to ask, you still have to ask.

He spoke for a long time, and said: "Brother Tao, speaking of which, you and I have known each other for a long time, although you belong to Yuan's hostile camp, but Yuan can't hate you anyway, if you don't say anything else, according to common sense, I should have died in your hands twice." ”

The potter waved his hand lightly and said, "Brother doesn't need to see each other like this, between you and my brother, what else do you need to be polite?" ”

Yuan Tan ignored him, but continued: "And today you will give me the favor of not killing Gao Gan, so that Gao Gan will accept my affection...... Brother Tao, Yuan is also a state assassin, and some things can still be seen! If you just didn't do it intentionally, Yuan naturally didn't believe it! What exactly are you trying to do? ”

The potter restrained his smile and glanced at Yuan Tan deeply.

Well, it is indeed as Yuan Tan said, no matter how you say that this kid is also from the Yuan family, and he has also done a history of assassination, if he is so easily fooled by himself, then he is not a descendant of the Yuan family.

And in the final analysis, no matter how good this kid is with himself, it's only a superficial phenomenon, in history, this guy turned against his biological brother for the sake of power, and he didn't care about brotherhood, he belonged to the kind of person with a wolf's heart and dog's lungs, purebred!

After considering the wording, the potter immediately said: "Brother Xiansi, since you said it, then I don't want to hide it from you, let me tell you the truth, I am now helping you to inherit the position of the general and lay the foundation for the next day." ”

When Yuan Tan heard this, his brows suddenly tightened

He looked at the potter fixedly, and said word by word: "Do you want to hold Yuan hostage and control Yuan?" ”

The potter smiled and said, "Brother Yuan, the little family is angry, even if I want to, do you think this matter is possible?" Your Yuan family is in the land of the four states of Hebei, looking at the world, who can control your Yuan family? I'm afraid the Son of Heaven won't be able to do it. ”

Yuan Tan was silent when he heard this.

What the potter said does make sense, what does he use to control himself? He doesn't seem to have the ability.

The potter continued to say to Yuan Tan: "It's still the same sentence back then, as long as the elder brother can become the lord of Hebei, the younger brother will have a relaxed environment in the future, and he can attack and retreat and defend. Brother, you said yes, right? ”

In the face of this temptation, what else can Yuan Tan say?

Naturally, he nodded vigorously, and said again and again that it was.

However, Yuan Tan was also playing his little abacus in his heart.

Since the potter wants to help him get to the top, why not?

As long as he becomes the lord of Hebei, how to treat the potters in the future, or how to treat Xuzhou, is not based on his own mood?

No matter how righteous the potter is to himself, he is just an enemy of Hebei in his position.

After thinking about this, the big stone in Yuan Tan's heart just landed, and he began to plan how to plan the potter from his point of view, and get more support from him.

But this change in Yuan Tan has long been expected by the potter.

This kind of white-eyed wolf, if it doesn't bite you, it's weird.

Yuan Tan suddenly threw a very important question to the potter.

"Brother Xian, now that my Hebei army is pressing, you Xuzhou is difficult to protect, at this moment, how can you still be in the mood to plan for your brother's future? I'm afraid that the day of my succession to the throne has not yet come, and you have already lost your land and lost your land......"

When he said this, Yuan Tan's words were not moved, because he found that the potter was still smiling, and Yuan Tan could not see the slightest fear and panic on his face.

After a while, Fang listened to the pottery merchant and said lightly: "Yan Liang, the senior cadres have been easily subdued by me, the situation along the east bank of the Yellow River has been decided, why does my brother say that the outcome of this war, the person who lost the land and perished, must be me?" ”

Yuan Tan grinned when he heard this, but he couldn't think of a rebuttal.

……

The potter did not rush to send Yuan Tan and Gao Gan and the others back first, on the contrary, he still detained these people in his own hands.

But he sent Yuan Shao back a person.

This person is Xiao Ji.

And the one who followed Xiao Ji back to Yuan Shao was also the corpse of Hebei general Yan Liang.

The potters still have some bottom lines, for a famous general like Yan Liang, the potters finally did not choose to behead and insult, but sent the body of Yan Yu back to Yuan Shao.

Although the lime placed on the corpse had ensured that it had slowed down the decomposition as much as possible, after so many days, Yan Liang's corpse had still begun to decay and stink, and when it stopped in front of Yuan Shao, its smell was no longer smellable.

Everyone next to him covered their noses with their hands or sleeves, but Yuan Shao's face was flushed with anger.

He glared angrily at Xiao Ji on the side, and the anger in his eyes could almost ignite him.

Xiao Ji also knew that he was in the wrong, but he lowered his head and didn't dare to speak.

Among the generals, Wen Chou and Yan Liang are like brothers, this man is quite righteous, and he doesn't care about the smell of the corpse as if he can attract flies, so he cries and pounces on it.

"Brother! You're dying so miserably. ”

Wen Chou's cry made Yuan Shao even more upset, and at the same time, he was even more angry, he waved his hand to the left and right angrily, pointed at Xiao Ji and said, "Drag this useless thing down and cut it down for me!" ”

Hearing this, Xiao Ji was so frightened that he knelt directly on the ground, and said, "General, you are not guilty." ”

"Not guilty?" Yuan Shao sneered: "Lost the soldiers, lost the generals, missed and was captured, and said that he was not guilty?" If you are innocent, who in the world is guilty? ”

"This, this!" Xiao Ji is incoherent, and he doesn't know how to say it.

Yuan Shang came to Yuan Shao's side from Yecheng some time ago, and when he heard the words, he admonished: "Father, the blame for the defeat of the army is not in the Duke of Xiao, after all, he is only the supervisor of the army, not the main general, and the person who harmed our army is the eldest brother......

"Bastard!" Yuan Shao was completely furious today, and even Yuan Shang was not used to it: "How to speak!" That's your big brother! You brute! ”

Yuan Shang opened his mouth and was speechless in shock.

Since he was a child, it seems that this is the first time he has heard Yuan Shao speak to him like this.

And you actually scolded yourself for being a brute?

I'm a brute, what are you?

Old livestock!

Frustrated Zhu saw that Yuan Shao's mind was in turmoil because he had broken Yan Liang, so he immediately stood up and said to Yuan Shao: "General, at this time of the war, it is not good to kill the mastermind, General Yan Liang is dead, the eldest prince and Gao Fujun are captured, and the morale of the three armies has been shaken. ”